Avast was what I had. No more. Avast had previously discovered a threat. It alerted me and blocked me from that website. I was using Chrome, by the way. Today, Avast alerted me again. Great, thanks. You're blocking me from my email box. OK, turn off the filter to proceed. Done... Only I still could not get in.
This is crap. Alerts and alerts. But why don't you REMOVE it??? I ran the Avast scan AGAIN. Threat found. Nothing DONE.
I lucked into AVIRA. Uninstalled Avast. Installed AVIRA. Scanned the computer. Found the malware and QUARANTINED it. Finished.
Folks: AVIRA is apparently better than Avast, if that's what you've got installed. I also use CCleaner and Malwarebytes. Together, hopefully I'll be covered, now. Until the NEXT thing that the scum-pigs insert into my machine. But hold on: unless you pay for premium, AVIRA will not scan your emails. Bloodsuckers. But if you routinely scan, it should ostensibly find the bad stuff and remove it, anyhow.
But important: you must specifically click in your settings, under Privacy and Security, to allow AVIRA access to the entire hard drive. Because Apple wants to make things difficult. Just like things are done everywhere else these days, too.
I've switched to the BRAVE browser, as well.
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The good part. Seems to me when PC starts to run slow or acts up, running a scan takes care of the problem .
A few months back came upon article rating different virus protection, & from what I remember Avira was in the second half of 8 or 10 mentioned.
I plan on talking to a techie & see what she comes up with.
Have a good weekend, Derf
Well, one trick to generate income from posting “free” material online was until recently to allow tracking apps to follow your every move and to sell that information about you to retailers, insurance companies, scam artists, etc. So … they could amass for commercial purposes vast amounts of data about your tastes in food, entertainment, clothing, your political views, your own health issues, your wealth, your travels, your pets, your kids and their friends ad infinitum by following you around the internet, monitoring your contacts list and tracking your GPS locator.
Enter Apple - which a couple years ago blocked tracking on their devices unless the user explicitly grants permission. This hurt. Meta (Facebook) was one of the first to post declining revenue after Apple’s curbs went into effect. Others have followed Apple’s lead. What now? What’s left? It’s hard to blame commercial enterprises (Morningstar- to cite just one example) for not wanting to give out for free information that cost them money to generate - be it news articles, investment data or whatnot. So we’re left with the worst of both worlds - a garbage bin of an internet plus a struggling and less competent news and information industry.